Improvement in oil-cans



dnitri 5mm @me niet `Mannen SCANLAN, or innniivaroms, INDIANA.

Letters Patent N 99,789, dated .February 15, .-1870.

-Q*o---m IMPROVEMENT IN oIL-cAns.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, PMR-rcx ScANLAN, of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion, and State of Indiana', have invented certain Improvements in Oil-Cans, of which the following is a specification.

Nature mul Object of the Invention.

My invention relates to the combination of water and steam-heating device. with the ordinary oil-can, in

such' a manner that the oil in the can shall be maintained at a fluid temperature for a snicient length of' time to allow of all the journal-hearings in an extensive manufacturing"establishment being supplied with oil, before the oil in said can becomes so much congealed as to prevent it from iiowing freely from the nozzle of the can. l

Description of the ccompanying Drawt'n gs.

-Figure lis au elevation of an oil can embodying my invent-ion. v

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same l taken through the centreef the'can.

General Description. A is the oil-can or reservoir, constructed inthe usuel l manner, with contracted ejecting nozzle B and supplyvalve O. i

' .D is a Water chamber having a supply-valve at E.

l" is a steam-drum located in the ol-can, as shown,

l to which steam is admitted by tube G from the Water chamber D, and from which it escapes by tube H.A

The water contained in the chamberD prevents the o il in the can from being injured by excessive heat, and the steam passing into the drum F and tubes G and H in theinterior of the cankeeps the oil in the latter at a tem peratnre that will maintain a suicient-ly fluid condition ot' the oil to iiow freely fromt-he eject Claim.

The oil-can A furnished with the steam-chamberll, and tubes G and H, in combinationwith the watercharnber D, Iall constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth. r

p PATRICK SOANLAN.

Witnesses; i

DAN. W. KNEFLER, O. F. MAYHEW. 

